EZEKIEL MONTGOMERY was originally a resident of Port Edward, Montgomery County, N. Y., and removed with his family to Silver Creek, Chautauqua County, N. Y., about 1833. He was a millwright, and in 1852 he established in Silver Creek, N. Y., the noted Eureka Smut Machine Works, in which his sons, Henry and Martin E., were partners.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I